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Everyman

By Philip Roth

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| Paperback | 9780307277718

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Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortaliContinue

Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.

The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.

The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

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  • Grave thoughts from a master

    Everyman by Philip Roth 192pp, Jonathan Cape, £10 It takes a Philip Roth to have the nerve to give the resonant title Everyman to a small novel about a retired advertising executive turned amateur artist who dies prematurely while undergoing a heart ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Forgive me, my sons, for I have sinned

    Everyman by Philip Roth Jonathan Cape £10, pp182 For a decade now, we have lived with the glory of late Philip Roth. To punctuate his last four indelible novels of America and its discontents at the turn of the century, Roth has developed a periodic ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Every(Old)man?

    Roth's old man saga is kept going. The number one issue for an aged man is health. He cannot do all the things he took it for granted in the past that has big mental impact and adjustment to make.

    With his atheism and self-conscious sex-addicted behavior, the solitary surroundings have haunted ... (continue)

    Roth's old man saga is kept going. The number one issue for an aged man is health. He cannot do all the things he took it for granted in the past that has big mental impact and adjustment to make.

    With his atheism and self-conscious sex-addicted behavior, the solitary surroundings have haunted him for his evening of life.

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